Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-01-21

| Arthur in his earlier experience IN poll
tics only rs lobbyist when the hgisla-
ture was in session at Albany, and as
gambler on the boats plying on the
Hudson between New York and Albany
| The nomination of Arthur for the Sec
ond place Oh, the national ticket to please
Conkling, the subsequent efforts of Sen.
'ators Conkling and Platt, or ME Too, u
TO run the government, with the aid and
connivance OF ArthHr, which was the inn
mediate cause of the assassination of Pres
ilent Garfield /; the political downfall of
Conkling and almost unnoticed death of
Me Too;" the illness of Arthur that
overlook him almost us soon rs he step-
ped into the dead Presidents shoes, and
his subsequent years of suffering and
death the sudden collaps of General
Grants fortune and his subsequent
death the utter disruption of the fam
sasSR Giteau-all these combined ought
to convince even one who may be skep-
tically inclined to believe that rctribu-
tive justice overtakes suddenly in some
instances, while in others it is sure, but
slow.
These thoughts were suggested by the
following from New York journals
moralizings upon the death of and for
tune accumulated by A. T. Stewart, but
hnve-not Intentionally at the start
brought several more characters into the
great drama and tragedy of human life,
which seemed almost indispensable to
more vividay illustrate what observation
has taught us to regard as a substantial
fact, that the path of retrlbutive justice
can not be stunned, but must be travel
ed, sooner or later in this life, with still
worse showing where no lury are requi
red and the decision of an incorruptible
Judge will be final-no appeal, no
change of venue, no bribed OF purgered
witnesses-no lawydrs
"a, 4. Stewart, the dry goods merch-
ant prince of n dozen years ago, toiled
hard, denied himself OF rest and recrea-
tiou. to accumulate numerous millions,
which, at his death, ten years ago, he
left to his wife. He had placed her in an
immense marble palace on Fifth Ave-
nue., spacious enough TO be seminary.
They were childless, and the widow of
the millionaire occupied the mansion,
attended by retinue of servants. OF
the thousands who daily walk or drive
past it, few ever saw curtain drawn or
any evidence of life within. The costly
fn Cl,t tI., ~
corresponded with the palatial structure.
But it is doubtful, if, in New York,
there has lived more lonely person, du-
ring the past ten years, than the owner
of this luxurious home, Without taste
for literature or adaptation for social
life, she has daily attired herself in elab.
GRATED dressing of which she was vainly
fond, 1.-THE new-fangled fad" was yet
among Wendell Phillips Lost Arts" in
her day on earth] and whiled away the
time staring at inanimate furnishing
and decoration. And when ON October
25th announcement was made of her
death, IL is doubtful if there were a
meagre half dozen persons to shed tear
over her departure from life. And on
account of these millions, the body of
her husband was stolen from the grave
two days after its burial, and was never
recovered, SO that she could not look
forward, in life, even to being buried by
him in death. What poor return did
this huge fortune bring to its possessor
If Mrs. Stewat led life of such re-
cluse, how did the reporter find out so
much? He must have interviewed the
'sarveants,' which would scarcely be re-
garded legitimate journalism out in this
neck of the woods. But being home
paper and laboring no doubt under the
false though generally accepted theory,
that only the virtues and not the vices
of man should be mentioned after death,
this moralizer fails to call attention to
the more prominent feature of his
moral, in that he failed to call attention
to the overreaching and crushing out of
existence his financially inferior COM
petitors, and his unsuccessful effort to
shake" this wife who survived him ten
years, with the also accepted theory that
he desired to legally marry the second
with the hope of having an heir born to
him to perpetuate at least his name and
fame for one generation. She wouldn't
shake nor die--and you have the result
as above-where is he? Echo can not
respond even in this case.
p. S. While on this line of subjects
for the undertaken and body snatcher,
permit us to state in the language OF
the 'weather-roostcr' of the B. G. DEM
ocrdt, who can change about four times
while the wind is getting ready to change
once, that we have seen in some of "our
esteemed contemporaries" within the
past few days, that Charlie Foster came
within an acc of being blowed to the
'juce' week or ten days ago by the
very sudden and unpremature explosion
OF boiler from the accumulation of too
much natural gas beneath, aud only just
minute after Mr, Foster left the build
ing I! And this, too just on the heels of
getting down fine his neighbors and viii
layers from boyhood up, and without
whose patronage he might have been a
tramp and killed long ago by drunken and
vulgar employees wrecking the train and
road that he might be travelling on in
search of work which he did not wish
to find, by threatening their representa-
tives in council assembled with n law
suit, by which means larger villages
have been skeered by lesser corporations
than the STANDARD Oil Company, with
their all-thc-year-round attorneys-or
at least wish they had. II was very
kind in the gas 10 wait until the ex.Gov.
ernor got out of the building, and who
knows but what il was providential, TO
give him time to argue with himself